Crash Dive (Alexander Hawke Series, Book 6.5) by Ted Bell

Ted Bell's first ever publication specific brief tale reveals Counterspy Alex Hawke in adversarial international waters, flying at approximately the rate of sound, at an altitude no sane guy could dare, piloting an F-16 Viper on a hugely covert mission.

His activity is easy: input one other nation's airspace undetected, meet a mystery touch, and give you the chance to avoid a world warfare. it is going to take each ability at his command—but there are few as wise and savvy as Alex Hawke. while his aircraft is found through enemy radar, he's pressured to improvise—or die trying.

Half blistering espionage mystery, half riveting police procedural, and half piercing exposé on social injustice, the lady Who performed with fireplace is a masterful, ceaselessly enjoyable novel.

Mikael Blomkvist, crusading writer of the journal Millennium, has made up our minds to run a narrative that may reveal an intensive intercourse trafficking operation. at the eve of its booklet, the 2 journalists liable for the object are murdered, and the fingerprints discovered at the homicide weapon belong to his pal, the stricken genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, confident of Salander’s innocence, plunges into an research. in the meantime, Salander herself is drawn right into a murderous video game of cat and mouse, which forces her to stand her darkish previous.

A tender NASA health professional needs to wrestle a deadly microbe that's multiplying within the deadliest of environments -- house -- during this acclaimed blockbuster of clinical suspense from Tess Gerritsen, bestselling writer of Harvest, lifestyles aid, and Bloodstream.
Gravity
Dr. Emma Watson has been education for the journey of a life-time: to review dwelling beings in house. yet her venture aboard the foreign house Station becomes a nightmare past imagining while a tradition of single-celled organisms starts to regenerate uncontrolled -- and infects the gap station group with agonizing and lethal effects. Emma struggles to comprise the outbreak whereas again in the world her estranged husband, Jack McCallum, works frantically with NASA to convey her domestic. yet there'll be no rescue. The contagion now threatens Earth's inhabitants, and the astronauts are stranded in orbit, quarantined aboard the station -- the place they're demise one after the other. ..

Blackmail. Bullets. Deception. It's time to play ball.
Johnny Adcock, the getting older major-league aid pitcher who moonlights as a personal investigator, returns within the exciting follow-up to The Setup Man.
Johnny Adcock doesn't have an place of work; he has the bullpen. That's the place he's sitting shelling sunflower seeds after a online game, whilst up walks Tiff Tate, the enigmatic, career-making PR/stylist at the back of the main hugely marketable appears in baseball. Tiff wishes Adcock's designated model of craftsmanship. Her new purchaser is Yonel Ruiz, the rookie phenom who courageously risked existence and limb in shark-infested waters to escape his local Cuba for repute, fortune, and freedom in significant League Baseball. Now that Ruiz has signed a record-setting agreement, the Venezuelan cartel that smuggled him out is squeezing him for a larger slice of the motion and they've unleashed a ruthless murderer, identified in basic terms as l. a. Loba, to assemble. Adcock takes the case, even if front workplace desires to close down his aspect activity and has despatched its no-nonsense company fixer and "director of security" to maintain a detailed eye on him. Adcock is straight away swept up in a high-pressure online game packed with striking twists, double crosses, and lethal gambits that might depart him combating for his existence and at risk of wasting greater than the warmth off his fastball or a place within the playoffs.
Critics raved concerning the Setup guy: "A horny secret with a rakish lead" (Milwaukee magazine Sentinel), "This rookie mystery author has homered his first time at bat" (The loose Lance-Star), and "Teems with intercourse, violence—and baseball . . . Monday merits promoting to the beginning rotation of mystery writers" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Double change proves that Johnny Adcock is among the genre's so much unique detectives in years, and offers readers a welcome go back to the sexy,
action-packed, and exciting international the place high-stakes specialist activities and life-or-death motion collide.
From the Hardcover version.